What principally distinguishes “lā ḥukma bi-lā bayyina” from an elliptical “baʿda al-faḥṣ”?
Supplementary Practice 13: Attribution, Quotation and Evidential Restraint in Rhetorical Analysis
- Both must omit the same construct noun
- The first is a circumstance and the second an adjective
- The first condenses a maxim; the second relies on an omitted, recoverable verb
- Every word in the first is redundant and the second repeats each word